Every morning, I wake up to two lemon-colored eyes peering at me. They belong to Lady, a delicate and regal Persian-domestic mix, with short, feathery ebony fur. She is my only friend in this dismal ...

Coping with the demeaning and adversarial nature of prisons is taxing. Prison is loud. Violence breaks out. People are disruptive. For all of these reasons and more, prison causes mental, physical and ...

My Florida facility has special incentives, one of which is ice cream. For a while, we’ve gotten pints, a larger portion than usual.

This cartoon is of a prison guard as a sheepherder. We’re the sheep. One main task of guards is to count the prison population. Count happens multiple times per day. This act is like a shepherd ...

I wanted to highlight a military veterans service organization new to my prison. Then it got shut down.

Juan Rios became a gang member when he was 11 years old. He started his first prison sentence at 19. Years later, after being released, he kept gang-banging. Then, at age 24, he shot three people ...

In Florida state prisons, microwaves are usually off limits, but my dormitory recently got one. It’s made cooking easier and our food tastier.

Incarcerated women built a patio, and we use it for Bible study, leisurely picnics, to engage in mindfulness or yoga, and to play cards or crochet.

In May, 15 men were submerged in a homemade baptismal pool in a Michigan prison’s gymnasium.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. It finally happened: Food from the dining hall made me physically ill. I have long thought I could eat anything, ...

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Briann Lindsey has been incarcerated at New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women for the last nine ...